Exactly
St Paul, MN. Coffeeshops, city life, books and progressive politics. Bad church lady. Pretty good enneagram teacher and coach. https://linktr.ee/babeaty
1,390 followers 971 following 4,402 posts
view profile on Bluesky
Exactly
the thing about Zohran is he is really fucking good at politics and everyone on the Dem side behaving like he’s a liability has lost their minds I don’t care how you define It, he has It
Thank you on this labor day!!
You and 70% of all 8th graders 🤣
No raffle fundraisers!
Honestly neither am I. But it’s a great story, right? 🤣 And just now I realized that Dining Hall on Dan Patch Ave is run by the Methodist church I currently attend. It’s like Dan Patch’s destiny and mine are intertwined.
Probably right. Ah well.
“— you have a point about the donations. Let me pray on it.” A few days later the pastor has a plan. They will baptize Dan Patch and make him a member of the church. Then Dan Patch can tithe 10% of his winnings.” Problem solved. So not only was Dan Patch a horse, he was a Methodist horse.
To give it up.” Dan Patch’s owner responded with the equivalent of “Are you nuts? I’m making so much money and donating a lot to this beautiful church. What if I gave more money?” The pastor responded, “What do you think we are? Catholics? We don’t sell indulgences! But —
Seems the lead pastor in the day didn’t approve of gambling. No surprise Methodists are historically No Fun. Anti drinking, dancing, playing cards … all that stuff. So the lead pastor says to Dan Patch’s owner “As your spiritual leader I have to condemn your involvement gambling and urge you
And a horse. There with business tycoons and former mayors, a B&W picture of a horse. I asked the pastor about it and turns out it was Dan Patch, the famous race horse. His picture was up there because Dan Patch, the famous racehorse, had been a member of the church.
Ok. It’s story time. In the 80s I attended Wesley United Methodist Church near Loring Park. It a huge old stone building and in its day it had a lot of money and power. The 80s were not those times. In the fellowship hall were pictures of famous Minneapolis citizens past who had been members.
If our attitude is “win even if you need to give into the fascists to do it” what are we fighting for?
If they are registered as democrats they are democrats. I don’t go for all that no true Scotsman nonsense. Yes, democrats are generally better than republicans for trans folks. Some are not and need to be primaried.
Not all democrats. And those democrats need to be primaried. One city over from me the Democratic mayor is bulldozing homeless encampments and burning people’s belongings. He continues to increase the police budget even tho crime is down. He might as well be GOP
I’m a Democrat because it is the only party that reflects the traditional values I was raised with. Care for others, even if I don’t like them. Take care of the basics (infrastructure, education, healthcare, voting rights). Honor the past but change with the times. Leave it better than you found it
First it’s already happening here. It has been for a while. Second (and most importantly) I have trans loved ones. Putting them in danger so we can elect politicians who would like my loved one to not exist is a lose-lose scenario for me.
There are people in public life clearly and accurately stating the danger to America at this bizarre moment. Those people need support from every Conservative and Liberal American who find our Constitution worth preserving.
why do transphobes have a fucking monopoly on "having some concerns about fairness", can i have a concern about the fairness of normalizing kids getting their genitals inspected by strange adults for reasons entirely unrelated to health or hygiene as a prerequisite for peewee soccer?
why can't the democrat messaging on trans people be "no, we are not going to force children to undergo genital inspections in order to play sports"
And my opinion is a no brainer for me. I don’t believe humans are expendable just because they aren’t me. So there we are.
As someone who worships in a house of worship with other worshippers who are frequently targeted by police, I do not endorse this action
Right? Me too! I heard him described as a frontier land developer. He’d sell the cheap saplings until an area was settled then move on to the new western edge of the frontier.
As an actual adult I don’t like the implication that adults are willing to sacrifice trans and homeless people in the name of “winning.”
I saw Walz at our state fair last week. He told the press he’d have an answer in three weeks.
Medical science: Ahaha we have invented tens of thousands of life improving and saving medications ahaha we are unstoppable Grapefruit:
My midsized midwestern city elected a city council that is overwhelmingly young, nonwhite and female. Could not be more proud of our voters!
Is your state auditor making seed-based advertising?
This 🧵🔥🔥
when he does finally go i will demand not just the death certificate but the long form death certificate
Love it!
My adult daughter and I have an ongoing conversation about how we (general) need to relearn to create and maintain these networks.
My lesbian neighbors came over one day while I was working and changed the spark plugs on my mower. Probably mostly because they were tired of hearing it misfire. 🤣
"we need mental health care, not gun control!" Multiple mass shootings would not have been prevented with more mental health care. Mental health care for these fuckers is institutionalization. The problem is the guns.
These orchards still dot farmland from Virginia to Minnesota. The apples they produce look (not to mention taste) nothing like the apples you find in stores. It would be a slap in the face to give them to the homeless, schools etc. Poor folks and kids deserve decent food, not our rejects.
Most family farms have small scraggly apple orchards that produce small scabby apples that are basically inedible, thanks to Jonny Appleseed. He sold low quality saplings to settlers who planted them to prove they were truly “settled” and get land super cheap/free.
I have tried “I know a gal” but it hits different. But I also told a trans man from my church he was the epitome of a little old church lady but it’s ironic “because you’re none of those things.” So maybe don’t take my advice.
This is becoming a hobby/obsession of mine: Being a guy* who knows a guy*. And yes, old guys* know a lot of stuff, but the system only works if we keep cultivating younger guys*. *Guy in the gender-neutral sense.
“Having a guy” for a task is the number one most important thing you can do as you get older. We need to cultivate your guys, and the greatest honor is to be someone else’s “guy.”
Regardless of shooter ideology (though shooters often share a stated ideology that gets overlooked by initial reporting), mass shootings have an ideological form, which is that agency belongs to those willing to do violence, that the dead deserve their fates, that this is the point of gun power.
… unfortunately, there is 30% of our population that are absolutely OK with it. This demographic has equal representation through small(er) red states that have equal representation. We are at another juncture in our nation’s history that will be shaped by civil/equal rights
Eagle Scout here, in Boy Scouts they let us burn the flag as part of the Free Speech Merit Badge btw
Exactly. It’s not “politics” it is “traditional values.”
Abuser says its not cool for abuse victims to cut them off because of abuse, abuse victims disagree. Pretty old story.
This question is pretty loaded. I suspect Harris voters may be more honest on this point than their counterparts. My racist aunt threw my cousin out of the house for dating a Black guy, but I guarantee you she also would have said it was wrong to cut anyone off for their political views.
Once you have decided that sacrificing one vulnerable group is a small enough price to pay, you become more receptive to ideas that make that price seem smaller. It becomes easier to see that group as a problem that needs solving. You're not crass or calculating about it. It just happens.
The thing about accepting Newsom's depravity against trans people or the homeless on the grounds of "Yeah, that's bad, but we have to beat Trump or it'll be worse." is that by accepting it, you mark it as acceptable, both within your mind and in the larger world around you.
New rule. A parent may only propose removing a book from the school library only after reading it in its entirety and delivering a book report to the librarian. Until then no discussion shall be entered into.
Are they referring to the Taylor Swift who has been criticized for being too brazen and proud or a totally imaginary one?
It’s a little bit funny that so many people with influential platforms remain committed to the idea that Trumpism, as a political project, is mysterious and hard to pin down – while Trump himself constantly goes “Gotta protect the white real Americans from the black and brown hordes.”
This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”
I was raised Catholic and then pulled very far away from it, in later years I came back to being interested in the tradition and mystery of the church and spirituality. I mention all this to say I hope every ICE Agent burns in whatever form of Hell there might actually be.
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
Honestly this on its own, absent everything else & all the other cases where chatbots have caused harm, should be the end of ChatGPT & its ilk forever.
I am on the list for federal jury duty, starting in September and for the next three years. I’m hoping I get called
Fuck shit up. Fuck shit up, you beautifuls. They make it hard to get care? Fuck shit up and get it. Fuck shit up and see yourself as a worthy person. Some entities don’t want you to! Fuck their fucking shit up. You DO matter. We WANT you around. You ARE important. So defiantly fuck shit up.
- So society told him he was bad and he had the system basically keeping help away from him. - But he had access to a gun. That was super easy for him to get. He died because he thought he had screwed up, irreparably, and would never be forgiven. As if he chose mental illness. As if anyone would.
Here are some reasons Rick died: - Our society treats mental illness as a character flaw, it blames the sick person in a way we never do with cancer or other diseases - Depression throws a blurry curtain over the world, then tells you that’s how the world really looks
There are people with free will and both ends of this tragedy. One of those people was in desperate need of help. The others chose to profit from that need by mimicking an actual health professional.
The machine doesn’t “want” to “be” anything. The coders creating the AI want it to produce language that sounds generically helpful and informative. By making their machines sound like therapists the coders are practicing without a license.
some marketing agency making $250K rn
Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.
LFG IOWAAAAAAA 🥳
thief took it straight to the prawn shop
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
I literally just swept there 5 minutes ago. This is why I don’t clean
News is the media’s job. Elected officials already have jobs protecting their state and opposing Trump. Maybe if the MSM did there job and people on social media didn’t lay everything at the feet of unnamed democrats we wouldn’t be in this mess.
Yes. I also felt this way about the assassinations in Minnesota. In fact, I continue to feel this way about the assassinations in Minnesota.
Tapping the sign:
No. You have three years to push for better. They have three years to come up with better. We have three years to line up behind demanding better. We do not need perfect but we will not accept sacrificing lives and calling them "issues" like some fascist fuck. Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
So a little fascism is ok if it presents fascism?
This is literally the only reason he ran
the youth leading on action shouldn't HAVE to. They're doing so out of desperation, because they've been pushed to by complete abdication of the responsibility of elder generations to protect them. Pushing youth to give up their childhoods & lead more is a continuation of abdicating responsibility
Justice-minded folks have a habit of fetishizing youth participation and throwing masses of activated young people at a problem while pledging support and having reverence in the background. This leads to most of those young people getting ground under and burned out and leaving the work w in 5 yrs.
To be fair that explains a lot. My uncooperative printer is certainly not due to user error
Sure. The same way cameras steal part of your soul and your television talks to you. This is sheer superstition.
It's astounding to watch the people who have been calling Dems communists for the past 70 years now bullying companies into partnerships with the government. The hypocrisy could not be any thicker.
God's truth.
honestly, the rightwing appears larger than it may be, warped by the reality-bending mirror of online space.
fwiw, there is no way for leftist ideas to "win" online. almost all online lingo and memes originate in specifically white supremacist spaces. they made the rules and set the parameters. left and liberal victories will only be actualized by a large ground game.
THIS…is the mindset. THIS…is the attitude. THIS…is the fire in the gut….that we are going to ALL have to adopt. I have. Have you? We can’t have people sit this one out…and still prevail.
Erasing the vital work Democratic leaders are doing day in and day out. Ginning up anxiety and urgency to drive engagement just feeds despair
Pritzker and Newsom are (for now) getting more media attention for their pushback on Trump than other elected leaders. Once it was Walz. A few cycles ago it was Buttigieg. Before that AOC. Always with the same narrative: THIS is the only democratic standing up to Trump.
It’s Time Everyone Acknowledges This Fact….
GYN here. I perform many uncomfortable exams and procedures that could be prevented if everyone was vaccinated against high risk HPV
Walz: "It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities, the flaunting of the rule of law, that the press finds the need to talk about, 'Oh, there's a division in the Dem Party.' There's a division in my damn house & we're still married and things are good. That's life"
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
If you believe that a white woman who is a convicted child sex abuser and trafficker is innocent and honest, but a Latino father who had to be released because they could find no evidence against him is guilty and a liar, then it isn't law & order you believe in, it's child abuse & white supremacy.
Maybe they should enforce the whole Flag code? Like the parts about not wearing it or not displaying it all tattered on your truck or not changing it by drawing blue lines on it or merging it with the confederate flag or all the other desecration the MAGA do every day.
This is bs the kneeling (a traditional gesture of respect) bs all over again.
Turns out that’s a thing hens can do when the flock doesn’t have a rooster and the flock feels under attack. So, what immutable biological sex was that bird?
Yeah. Let’s take chickens. My daughter raised chickens. One of her hens started getting aggressive and stopped laying eggs. She grew a spur on the back of each foot (like roosters have). She grew a comb and started crowing. She became a rooster after a couple of years as a hen that laid eggs.
George Lakoff said the Republicans were the "strict father" party (in contrast to the Dems' "nutrurant parent" model) but under Trump it's clearly shifted to the "abusive father" party. For sadists, by sadists.
Trump is the natural outcome of 40 years of GOP policy and rhetoric. As long as GOP politicians continue to support Trump’s policies and GOP donors continue to fund MAGA candidates this will be the GOP.
A thing I would like to ban from culture writing: the phrase "nobody had ever [INSERT WHATEVER HERE] before." It's just never exactly true. Someone always did some version/variation/precursor to whatever your hero did. That's evolution baybeeee
Well Done…. “Shout out to white women in California who put Mexican flag bumper stickers on their cars to bait ICE into profiling them. It worked. They keep getting pulled over and wasting ICE's time. Be the sand in the fascist machinery." – @1NadineSmith
A thing Zohran & his campaign have powerfully tapped into -- and that his scavenger hunt captures so perfectly -- is that a vast majority of the people who live here genuinely *love* New York City. We wouldn't stay here otherwise!
I would love to know how folks who get upset at cultural appropriation feel about someone who never served wearing military medals as jewelry.
Public education. Public libraries. Money for homes. SNAP programs. Welfare. PPP Loans. Public pools. Well documented 🙃
Hope is what we do when the odds are long and the options limited. It is the stubborn act of trying when despair feels easier. Rather than a passive optimism, hope is the commitment of those who believe they can make a difference, however small. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/what...